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Metastatic Lung AdenocarcinomasNTSNCT02891733

Retrospective Analysis of the Expression of the Neurotensin Receptor by Metastatic Lung Adenocarcinomas

An observational study of Metastatic Lung Adenocarcinomas, run by Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph.

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Withdrawn. The study stopped before anyone enrolled.

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Trial summary

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in France and worldwide. 60% of patients present themselves with a disease diagnosis immediately metastatic non curable. Adenocarcinomas account for 50% of incident tumors. Treatment is based on the platinum-based chemotherapy with or without maintenance therapy. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Any age
Conditions the study is for
Metastatic Lung Adenocarcinomas
How many people
0 participants
Where
No sites listed yet
Study dates
6 Mar 2017to 31 Dec 2018
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages Any age
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Study population: Patients consecutively treated between 2010 and 2015 at St. Joseph hospital (about a hundred patients) and the Saint-Antoine hospital (three hundred patients), holders of a primary lung adenocarcinoma in the metastatic setting and having all received the same first-line chemotherapy with a platinum agent (cisplatin or carboplatin) and pemetrexed (Alimta °)

Who may be able to join

  • Patients with adenocarcinoma in metastatic stage
  • Patients received
  • The same first-line chemotherapy with a platinum agent (cisplatin or carboplatin) and pemetrexed (Alimta °)

Who cannot join

  • No exclusion criteria

About this study

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in France and worldwide. 60% of patients present themselves with a disease diagnosis immediately metastatic non curable. Adenocarcinomas account for 50% of incident tumors. Treatment is based on the platinum-based chemotherapy with or without maintenance therapy. When there is to exhaust this first line, a second line treatment is offered to the patient. Three drugs are allowed in this situation: docetaxel, erlotinib (inhibitor of the tyrosine kinase activity of the receptor for epidermal growth factor - TKI-EGFR) and pemetrexed (which in fact has become virtually standard in first online and in combination with platinum in all patients with non-squamous cancer, so that his place is in second line reduced facto). There is no recommendation for treatment in third line situation where only erlotinib is allowed.

Most recently, the nivolumab, anti-PD1 monoclonal antibody (which aims to enable immunutaire system) saw its demonstrated effectiveness in the second line and beyond in the two Phase 3 trials where it was compared with docetaxel for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma and non-squamous. The very recent availability in France of the drug under an ATU fact that it will most likely become a standard second line, which will tend to place the third line docetaxel.

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Therefore, erlotinib will be in 4th line situation. However, in the absence of an EGFR mutation (which is only seen in more than 10% of Caucasian patients) use of the drug does not seem appropriate or even harmful. A selection of patients likely to benefit from the prescription of EGFR TKI-is essential.

Neurotensin (NTS) is a polypeptide of 13 amino acids present and active in the central nervous system and the periphery. At the peripheral level, neurotensin is secreted postprandial by endocrine cells in the intestinal mucosa and is involved in the motor functions of the gastrointestinal tract. The effects of neurotensin pass through the activation of three subtypes of receptors which, mainly, NTSR1 and NTSR2 which are receptors coupled to G proteins in the extra-digestive normal tissues, including lung, torque NTS / NTSR1 n is not expressed physiologically. Rather, this complex is likely to recur in tumor tissues.

The mechanism of this effect is derogatory activation torque NTS / NTSR1 of matrix metalloproteinases which causes the release by the cell membrane ligands "EGF-like" and thus, activation of HER receptor (EGFR or HER1, HER2 and HER3). Indeed, in experimental tumors created by subcutaneous injection in athymic mouse cell lines adenocarcinomas NTS + / NTSR1 + (non-mutated EGFR), treatment with erlotinib - which blocks EGFR pathway - causes a significant decrease of tumor growth.

Expression of the neurotensin receptor in cancer cells metastatic primary bronchial adenocarcinoma is not known. Therefore, its pejorative prognostic value is not confirmed in the metastatic setting.

Read the detailed description

The objectives of this work purely descriptive, are:

  • Evaluate the expression by tumor cells of the neurotensin receptor on a retrospective series of patients:
  • Consecutively treated between 2010 and 2015 at St. Joseph hospital (about a hundred patients) and the Saint-Antoine hospital (three hundred patients), holders of a metastatic and primary lung adenocarcinoma having received all even first-line chemotherapy with a platinum agent (cisplatin or carboplatin) and pemetrexed (Alimta °)
  • If possible, the records of patients treated at St. Joseph Hospital and Saint-Antoine Hospital between 2005 and 2010 as part of clinical trials evaluating the value of erlotinib will also be sought,
  • Develop a score expression NTSR1 taking into account the percentage of tumor cells expressing the receptor and the intensity of the marking,
  • Correlate labeling cells by NTSR1 with the clinical course of patients to see if expression NTSR1 is a factor of poor prognosis in metastatic patients.

Teams involved:

Services:

  • Pharmacy that will establish the list of patients have been treated with the same chemotherapy,
  • Pathological anatomy-to group blades and ensure immunohistochemical staining and reading,
  • Pneumology and Thoracic Oncology to resume the clinical history of patients.

The scientific coordination of the study will be conducted by INSERM UMR-S 1007, cellular homeostasis and cancer - Reprogramming of biological and alternative therapies responses (University Center of the Holy Fathers, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75006 Paris), one team under the direction of Dr. Patricia Forge, working on the couple NTS / NTSR1.

expected benefits

Beyond two or three conventional chemotherapy line, which will no doubt add - for a proportion of patients still to be determined - the new immunotherapy drugs, there is no longer any recommendations for treatment of patients lung cancer metastatic non-small cells. Erlotinib is an option since there is no limitation in its approval of prescription ond line. However, in the absence of EGFR mutation, the therapeutic value of the drug appears to be very low. Preclinical data that investigators obtained in the laboratory are hypothesize that tumors expressing NTSR1 could meet the same TKI EGFR in the absence of mutation in the receptor. The planned study will assess the percentage of patients in this situation in order to prepare the organization of a Phase II study to evaluate the clinical relevance of a TKI EGFR in this selected population of patients carrying of a non-mutated tumor.

Nature of the data collected

A file will be drawn from the clinical data found in files: all patients are carriers of metastatic primary lung adenocarcinoma and having all received the same chemotherapy.

The data obtained will be: age, sex, smoking status, number of courses of chemotherapy received and the response to treatment, the usual chronological parameters for the establishment of the survival curves. Histological samples will be processed locally in each of the two hospitals, according to a specific procedure to be determined between laboratories and INSERM Unit.

Identification of subjects and circulation and processing of data

In this study, the inclusions are carried out within the hospital group Paris Saint-Joseph and Saint-Antoine hospital. Histological samples will be processed locally in each of the two hospitals, according to a specific procedure to be determined between pathological anatomy and INSERM Unit Laboratories.

These histological samples will be stored at the Pathological Anatomy Laboratory Groupe Hospitalier Paris Sani Joseph.

Each study participant will be identified by a code of inclusion (first name and surname - year of birth). The concordance table to link the assigned code and the participant's name will be kept in each of the participating centers, in a file protected by a password specific to the principal investigator of each center. Data collected from different centers on anonymous paper media (only the code for inclusion of each patient are included) will be centralized within the GHPSJ and entered in a database which anonymous access is protected by the PIN each in the study of GHPSJ. Data processing and statistical analysis will be performed on the GHPSJ site in collaboration with the Clinical Research Unit of the European Hospital Georges Pompidou.

Keywords
Expression of the Neurotensin, Neurotensin
Medical subject headings
Adenocarcinoma of Lung

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Number of patient expressing Neurotensin receptor ( NTSR1) in their tumor

    Measured: Day 1

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted7 Sep 2016 (estimated)
  2. Study start6 Mar 2017
  3. Primary completion31 Dec 2018
  4. Study completion31 Dec 2018

Why it stopped: The principal investigator decided to stop the study.

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrolment
0 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02891733
Sponsor's protocol ID
NTS
Acronym
NTS
Status last verified
Aug 2018
First submitted
24 Aug 2016
Last updated
4 Feb 2019
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Undecided

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Metastatic Lung Adenocarcinomas, run by Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 4 Feb 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Number of patient expressing Neurotensin receptor ( NTSR1) in their tumor (time frame: Day 1). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 4 Feb 2019.

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